“I buy on the assumption that they could close the market the next day and not reopen it for five years.”
— Warren Buffett
The Warren Buffett investment philosophy calls for a long-term investment horizon, where a five year holding period, or even longer, would fit right into the strategy. How would such a strategy have worked out for an investment into ONEOK Inc (NYSE: OKE)? Today, we examine the outcome of a five year investment into the stock back in 2015.
| Start date: | 11/04/2015 |
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| End date: | 11/03/2020 | ||||
| Start price/share: | $33.56 | ||||
| End price/share: | $28.92 | ||||
| Starting shares: | 297.97 | ||||
| Ending shares: | 415.86 | ||||
| Dividends reinvested/share: | $15.70 | ||||
| Total return: | 20.27% | ||||
| Average annual return: | 3.76% | ||||
| Starting investment: | $10,000.00 | ||||
| Ending investment: | $12,028.01 | ||||
The above analysis shows the five year investment result worked out as follows, with an annualized rate of return of 3.76%. This would have turned a $10K investment made 5 years ago into $12,028.01 today (as of 11/03/2020). On a total return basis, that’s a result of 20.27% (something to think about: how might OKE shares perform over the next 5 years?). [These numbers were computed with the Dividend Channel DRIP Returns Calculator.]
Notice that ONEOK Inc paid investors a total of $15.70/share in dividends over the 5 holding period, marking a second component of the total return beyond share price change alone. Much like watering a tree, reinvesting dividends can help an investment to grow over time — for the above calculations we assume dividend reinvestment (and for this exercise the closing price on ex-date is used for the reinvestment of a given dividend).
Based upon the most recent annualized dividend rate of 3.74/share, we calculate that OKE has a current yield of approximately 12.93%. Another interesting datapoint we can examine is ‘yield on cost’ — in other words, we can express the current annualized dividend of 3.74 against the original $33.56/share purchase price. This works out to a yield on cost of 38.53%.
One more piece of investment wisdom to leave you with:
“Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” — George Santayana
